The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: Israel
Why no Israeli ships are hijacked by pirates
It’s a simple equation. Israeli ships are defended by armed security crews. Pirates attack ship, security crews fire on pirates, pirates retreat. Pirates, apparently from Somalia, attempted to hijack a Zim “Africa Star” ship on Saturday near the Republic of … Continue reading
Our objective media at work
The Atlantic, which is actually a magazine (and website) that I admire, linked to my most recent post. But there’s a difference between their post title and what I actually titled my post. Funny. I titled the post “Obama’s full-court … Continue reading
Netanyahu’s response
The New York Times reports about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s response to American demands. Mr. Netanyahu has brought up several possible gestures, including restrictions on Israeli troop activities in the West Bank, the freeing of Palestinian prisoners, some latitude for reconstruction … Continue reading
Biden’s knee-slapper
Stand up comedian: Vice President Biden (h/t The Muqata last week): “I just got back from five days in the Middle East,” Biden said. “I love to travel, but it’s great to be back to a place where a boom … Continue reading
“Ideological and vindictive”
via memeorandum Jackson Diehl, not someone I consider to be pro-Israel, nonetheless acknowledges what the administration is doing: U.S. pressure on Netanyahu will be needed if the peace process ever reaches the point where the genuinely contentious issues, like Palestinian … Continue reading
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Briefs
UN promoting blood libel: Awesome. Libya’s managed to get a document accusing Israeli doctors of stealing Palestinian organs on the UNHRC agenda. Which just goes to show you, the UN isn’t worth the land it’s sitting on. What next, a … Continue reading
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Sometimes anti-Israel is anti-Israel
Robert Wright sets up many straw men and knocks them down in Against pro-Israel. He cynically lists “symptoms” of being anti-Israel. Symptom no. 1: Believing that Israel shouldn’t build more settlements in East Jerusalem. President Obama holds this belief, and … Continue reading
Hillary’s peculiar speech
Yesterday, Secretary of State Clinton addressed the AIPAC conference. A number of points she made were questionable. In her speech to AIPAC, she said: The inexorable mathematics of demography are hastening the hour at which Israelis may have to choose … Continue reading
Briefly
The British Dubai hissy fit: The Brits can’t prove the Mossad stole their dual citizens’ IDs, but they’re throwing out an Israeli diplomat anyway. Of course they are. They have to protect their Arabist credentials. This is, after all, the … Continue reading
The Netanyahu AIPAC speech
It’s worth watching in full, but here are some of the highlights. On Jews and Israel: The future of the Jewish state can never depend on the goodwill of even the greatest of men. Israel must always reserve the right … Continue reading
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The “Galaxy Quest” president
Why did the administration escalate a political mistake into a diplomatic crisis? According to Secretary of State Clinton it helped move talks forward. A less kind way of putting it, would be that she boasted of putting PM Netanyahu in … Continue reading
There is hope for British Jews yet
A British university rejected a motion to “twin” itself with Hamas’ Islamic University of Gaza. And they did this even though the Jewish-Israel society, which has only 70 members, was unable to actively campaign against the move. More than 1100 … Continue reading
What hasn’t and has been learned
To the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, the crisis between Israel and the United States was a necessary fight, that put Israel in its place. Jerusalem is the hardest issue of all in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation, and for that reason, would-be … Continue reading